I think it’s more likely they struggled really hard to find any flattering angle, and this is the best they came up with.

UPDATE: As the deadline expired today, the prosecution dropped this motion which discloses that they searched an attorney’s phone with a warrant.

Because the stuff on this phone is a landmine of attorney-client privilege, they contend, there must be a complicated and lengthy clean room-style process to sort the privileged stuff from non-privileged.

Comey disagrees and wants to challenge the search warrant first.

I strongly suspect they didn’t actually turn over much of anything today, but we shall see.

In many jurisdictions, courts will allow prosecutors to “remedy” slipups to some degree by delaying the trial date, allowing the defense the same time they would have had to prepare, or at least an adequate time.

It definitely seems like that is not going to happen in this district.

There’s a bunch of complicated case law about missed disclosures and late disclosures.

I care about the guy now. Because I care about the rule of law. I want real trials in my country, where defendants confront the evidence against them fairly. Not show trials and Col. Cathcart “we can’t tell you who Person 3 is” bullshit.

The Virginia Senate is getting on about states’ rights again. They issued UVA an ultimatum: if UVA accepts the Trump compact, they lose all state funding.

People have reported being sold into slavery after being deported to Libya. Mauritania criminalized chattel slavery in 2007, but the law is not well enforced.